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UPC to allow in-house counsel, but keeps other restrictions on representation

By Melissa Ritti ( February 12, 2025, 16:03 GMT | Insight) -- Two weeks after it held oral arguments, the UPC Court of Appeal confirmed today that corporate representatives or other high-level managers with “extensive administrative and financial powers” cannot argue on behalf of their entity at the fledgling court, but the panel did open the door to representation by in-house counsel. Writing for the court, Judge Klaus Grabinski declared “the independent exercise of the duties of a representative is not undermined by the mere fact” that a lawyer or European patent attorney who is otherwise qualified to practice before the UPC, “is employed by the party he or she represents.”Suinno Mobile & AI Technologies Licensing Oy lost its bid to have a request to seal certain documents in a patent row with Microsoft today, when the UPC Court of Appeal said it would not disturb findings that the request was inadmissible because it was filed by Suinno’s managing director and main shareholder....

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